There is absolutely no need whatsoever to get 100% before getting into events and bosses. On the contrary, doing event chains (including pre-events for bosses) is the most effective way to fill some hearts.
There’s really only three reasons to go for 100% after the first time
Legendaries
Completionism
Enjoyment
And Completionism is really only a subset of enjoyment, just enjoying the fruits of the labor rather than the labor itself.
If none apply, why do it?
Who said there was? I like having the map complete so I choose completion You also just stated what I have been saying. When you have already done it once why are we made to do it again if we want to get 100%. I actually preferred it when WvW was part of map completion but still hated doing the hearts.
I like the different looks a map has with hearts undone, it’s much more vivid than after you’ve solved the local problems. All the things that are interactive when you play a fresh character vanish when you do the hearts.
I agree though that hearts are the most boring things the game has to offer.
Of course by all means have the hearts open but make them optional after you have done your first 100% run. The very first thing I do when I make a new character is do 100% so I can get into the events and world bosses, But the hearts make doing map completion easily 10 times slower.
I would like to see the hearts be a one time thing. When the game was released it was play the way you like, want to do the hearts do them, Don’t want to then don’t. I don’t see why the hearts need to be done more than once, Sure have the map as it is now you still have to run around and get the way points, POI’s, HP’s and Vistas but make hearts a one time thing, When they’re done they are done account wide.
I have done 100% completion countless times since the game was released and every time the only thing that annoys me is doing the hearts again and again especially the tedious ones that don’t even look like they are moving.
Many Australian players of any MMORPG have learned to deal with the triple digit ping and we wouldn’t trade the around the clock population for anything – and that’s before you take into consideration many of us have made friends all around the globe and US servers are typically used for international gathering being the mid point between Asia/Oceania and Europe.
This. I’m on the EU servers and there’s no way I would go from that population to the one Oceanic servers would have.
People cried for Oceanic servers in Diablo 3 as well, They got them. The servers went from near 400 games open on the US/EU realms at all times to 0 on the Oceanic realms.
The sheer amount of jumping and puzzles in the new content makes me think Super Mario’s lead designer is moonlighting at GW2.
I wonder if teleport to a friend would get you into the zone?
It doesn’t you need to do the story. I recently bought HoT for my son so he could play with me but nope apparently buying the game isn’t enough to be able to play it. All his stories are locked behind a paywall. I tried the teleport to friend way and it wont do it.
The icons in the top left are the map completion icons. They show as 4/4 done because you’ve finished them once to get credit for the hearts on the map; those will always show as completed. The heart icons on the main part of the map will reset every day because they’re repeatable, which is why they’re shown as incomplete for you (since you hadn’t been in there to finish the tasks that day).
I HAD NOT DONE THEM! I had only done the story, I only did the story on release day, Then did the grawl heart to get the stone the second day and I couldn’t buy it and it said 3 of 4 done when 1 of 4 were done. I left the map and came back to it 2 days ago and it said as it said the first day 3 of 4 done. I did the svanir heart and it clocked 100% map complete but still said 3 of 4 and I still can’t buy the stone.
I believe this is mentioned in the update notes… Many players, including myself, preferred “hearts” and therefore map completion staying at 100% after Anet started using “hearts” as “dailies” with LS3.
As in Ember Bay many players seemed to moan about " map completion" disappearing after map completion…
Hope that made sense..
No, Look at the picture again. Let me help it says in the top corner 4 hearts of 4 hearts complete when if you look none are complete, To make it more clear I had not gone to that map for over 24 hours. Yesterday it was borked like that as well except it was 3 of 4 hearts complete and I hadn’t been in there for a few days, yet none of the hearts were done. The map is bugged out and still can’t buy the firestone.
This is what I meant (see pic) It says I have done all 4 hearts but I have actually done none. Maybe you guys should check if it’s the same on yours, As I think this may have something to do with it.
Not fixed here either, Another weird thing is it says 3 of 4 hearts were completed yet none were done. Did the grawl to see if fire stone there …. nope not there and still says 3 of 4. Did the svanir heart and it pops 4 of 4 yet 2 others were not done. I just don’t want to play this map.
That’s map completion. Once you have done them they show as done for map completion purposes.
Really thanks for that would never have known that if it wasn’t for you /sarcasm
I haven’t played the map for a few days it should be 0 of 4 they reset daily. Instead now I have a map with 2 hearts done but apparently I have completed them all with 2 not done, Do you get it now.
Not fixed here either, Another weird thing is it says 3 of 4 hearts were completed yet none were done. Did the grawl to see if fire stone there …. nope not there and still says 3 of 4. Did the svanir heart and it pops 4 of 4 yet 2 others were not done. I just don’t want to play this map.
IDK if this is related but I did a few more of the crack in the ice achievements today and when I looked at the hero panel it only shows 18 of 21 completed but when i count the completed achievements I have done 21 of them. Do some not count on the progress bar towards the Glacial Gauntlets box?
I have this too. I have done 19 or 20 but it says in the tracker I have only done 16.
This is what I get once every couple of days usually in EOTM, It starts out as small lines flashing on screen then usually ends up being impossible to play unless I alt+tab out and back in. https://youtu.be/b7ie4Kad9ek
I actually tested the jump between the Itzel village and the pact camp. Did that jump several times just to be sure of results.
Going from Itzel to pact, you aren’t in danger of getting killed by falling damage. Since the landing is higher than the take off point.
Going the other way however, either takes about 90% of your health or kills you outright depending on where you stand on the mushroom. And that is, if you don’t hit the tree branch half way there.
I did a /bug report on it in game.
I got killed going from the lower one up to the pact camp, But not from falling damage…well sort of. I activated that mushroom and my character curled up into a ball and started spinning and that was it for about 20 seconds it sat there getting beaten up by the enemy there and when I was about dead it shot me off down into the void instead of up.
If I was to buy the expansion today it would cost me $135.91 that’s for the ultimate version, The middle version would cost me $101.92. Whoever made these prices is crazy.
The skins actually need to be used on weapons to count for the collection. Simply having them isn’t enough. Basically the toy weapon skins need to be unlocked in the account wardrobe to count for the collection.
Easy way to do it is to go to a regular weapon merchant and buy white quality weapons for cheap then use a skin on it. Keep in mind that you can’t apply the skins to weapons your character can’t use because it needs to be equipped, so you may need more than 1 character to do it with.
Completely wrong! You only need to right click on the skin and select add to item collection achievement you can do it without unlocking the collection as when you do unlock it with the chest it will add all the already added skins to the collection.
The Wiki has it listed as a bug where the pet will continue healing you under water even if it is killed while reviving you. Using Lick Wounds revives the pet to have it heal you and help you rally but how it’s suppose to work is if the pet is killed while reviving you it should stop reviving you and put Lick Wounds on cooldown, to my understanding.
This is how it works, If the pet is dead and you use lick wounds it will limp (or whatever the case may be) over to you and start healing you, But if it gets hit it will stop healing until the cooldown goes and you can use it again. If it dies while healing you it will stop until the cooldown goes and you start it again. The pet never actually dies you will notice it always has at least 1 health.
Ok Last night (it’s 11.17am now gmt +10 sydney Australia) at 11pm the shatterer went entirely mental. It took, no word of a lie less than 5 seconds to kill him on fissure of woe server. He spawned as usual and a lag spike hit everyone for about 2-3 seconds, I hit the keys to turn on the recording software to record the lag and the lag stopped and the shatterer’s health went down so fast, It was literally 5 seconds to kill him including the lag time. If you devs have logs of those fights then surely you can see something went awry there with the server.
Yes at Grenth I get the squares over the character’s arms when I get the buff to kill the shades. I took a screenshot but it looks ok in that, But in game it’s 3 or 4 squares on each arm. You can see the straight line under the elbow.
Sapphire Toxic R9 270X here and I’ll put the screenshot up anyway as the devs may see something that isn’t right. Added another pic of what I got in EOTM.
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I thought based on map chats on various maps that it was a very wide problem (each time i disconnected > if i can come back on the same map, i see several players in map channel saying they have too been disconnected).
But based on this thread, it’s maybe a very limited population.
You’re kidding right? You say this because everyone that plays GW2 posts in the forums? Go off what you see in game not what’s here, Not everyone visits the forums.
Location Australia
time 9pm (gmt +10)
fissure of woe
Can’t play at all now it got worse over the last 30 minutes until now it’s impossible to play at all, Takes 10 seconds just to salvage something or put it in the bank.
Location: Sydney, Australia
Time: 12am (GMT +10)
World: Fissure of Woe
Playing fine for an hour or so with other people complaining about the lag through Cursed shore on events. Got to doing melandru, Got to the top platform and the first bunch of risen raptors (or whatever they are) spawned then it just stopped, Everyone kept running around into walls and off the platforms while my rapid fire just kept going and going. Thought it would start up again as everything started moving, but no I got disconnected after about a minute of rapid fire and watching people run into the walls like mental cases. It took me 5 minutes to get back in and when I eventually got back in there was 3 seconds left to go so I missed out on the whole event.
Location: Australia, NSW
Time 12-1pm
world: Fissure of Woe
Doing world bosses, At first it’s ok but a few seconds into it the lag kicks in, Everything stops then all of a sudden starts to come back slowly. Skills take 5-10 seconds to do anything they just keep flashing and do nothing.
As the title suggest, my game client is crashing to the desktop during World Boss fights (usually near the end of the fight). Majority of cases occurs during Triple Trouble, Taidha Covington and Tequatl the Sunless though it has happened with other bosses. Reports have been sent after each crash yet nothing has been done.
I’d say they would be aware of it, yesterday during Taidha Covington the group got the gate down and started attacking her then down it went. I thought it was just me but when I logged back in it seems the whole lot of us got disconnected. It’s only been happening to me since the last patch and it’s getting really annoying as it is happening at least twice a day.
Yep did this yesterday and everyone doing it was getting stuck when handing in the potion. Had to log out and back in at least ten times to get the heart done.
Today in EOTM I started getting this weird graphics corruption happening. It doesn’t happen outside the mists only inside. It’s not my card (sapphire R9 270X toxic) as it’s only a month old and it doesn’t happen anywhere else.
My G500 works fine, You don’t need any of the mouse software as the mouse keeps all the settings in it’s memory. I use the logitech gaming software for my g15 and the mouse is in it but I had it checked to use the onboard settings.
I called my friend earlier. I told him not to buy Guild Wars 2.
I did the same thing to a few people I had been telling to buy GW2. I had an elementalist that was lvl21 had all but the elite skill slot unlocked, Now it’s gone mental. No earth skills any more even though I had them unlocked and they were on when I logged back in but as soon as I changed to fire they were gone. My 2 utility slots were filled as they were when I logged out but can’t use them. I had bought 2 character slots a week ago and deleted a couple of characters I hadn’t played in a while to make a few new alts, What a mistake that was now I just have extra storage as I wont be playing them at all like this.
Mine has been crashing since the previous patch all the time. Can be just standing there and down it goes but it seemed to do it a lot more when I am using an Asura.
This sale is STUPID! First, there are no American servers with medium population. 1800 gems is WAY to high of a price to pay for a server transfer… Please change with sale to Very High/High…
Thanks
I agree, I’m in Australia and stupid me thought a euro server would be faster, but nope way laggy all the time. I saw his and though cool I can go to the usa servers, Just pick a medium one and it’s free HAH!! only medium ones are euro servers and then there are only 4 of them.
I just wanted to get to a server that wasn’t lagging all day and actually had people on it during our play time.
Last night (Australia here) the lag was massive. Done the shatterer on Fissure of Woe then went to golem and started getting lag by a few seconds, Then decided to go do the fire shaman and that was it. Walked up to a way point I didn’t have and after 5 seconds it didn’t recognise I had got it so I started timing it, It took another 35 seconds for it to activate the way point. The lag is horrible in this game.
started for me a few days ago and it’s getting really annoying. After it disconnects a couple of times the game crashes to desktop. Start it up and it starts disconnecting again. Ports are forwarded fine here and no software firewall, was fine for months until like I said a few days ago.
This seems to have been corrected now, or maybe I got lucky, but success either way.
I did it a few hours ago after a patch and it was a lot better. Nowhere near as many locust swarms and the NPC’s didn’t all instantly die, so don’t know if it was patched or I got lucky but it seems to be fixed now.
Yep glad it’s not just me, This guy is wiping me out every time. I got him down to about 50% health and I thought he would be just about dead then his life reset back to full and he wiped out all the NPC’s in a couple of seconds.
You also just stated what I have been saying. When you have already done it once why are we made to do it again if we want to get 100%. I actually preferred it when WvW was part of map completion but still hated doing the hearts.
